California Company Creates Games Players Control with Their Minds
The future is now! If iPhones, magical check-reading ATMs and cars that parallel park themselves weren’t enough to get you thinking about stocking up on ammo for the inevitable war against the robots, recent developments from NeuroSky Brain-Computer Interface Technologies might. The California company has developed a product called MindSet and has begun selling it to toy makers such as Mattel and Uncle Milton.... read more
PlayStation Announces Details of Move Motion Controller System
Sony recently announced that its latest bit of PlayStation 3 gadgetry, the Move motion controller, will be available this fall. The Move controller, along with the subcontroller and Eye camera, will allow users to navigate games as if they were actually a part of the action—similar to the style of the Nintendo Wii. Sony promises that the PlayStation Move system “will deliver an innovative and highly immersive experience.”... read more
Vampire Weekend Track Pack Available for Guitar Hero 5, Band Hero
Love that new Vampire Weekend album? Of course you do. Well, good news! Now there’s a chance for you to rock out in a whole new way. Two tunes from recently released Contra (“Cousins” and “Holiday”) plus a third from 2008’s Vampire Weekend (“The Kids Don’t Stand a Chance”) are now available as a three-song combo for both Guitar Hero 5 and Band Hero.... read more
When Will Nintendo Deliver the New Zelda Wii Game?
Nintendo’s Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, the company’s launch title in the series for their Wii console, pleased gamers with a compelling story and excellent design and graphics, earning it myriad positive ratings in online player reviews. But that was 2006. Zelda fans are getting antsy, despite December’s release of the well-received Spirit Tracks title for DS. The gaming community is abuzz with the question: “When will we see the new Zelda title for Wii?”... read more
Blonde Redhead Composing Score to Dungeons & Dragons Documentary
The only sound in the dungeon's inky-black depths is the steady rustle of your chainmail armor... read more
Owen Pallett Drops Final Fantasy Moniker
There’s an old southern saying: “Dance with the one what brung ya.” Owen Pallett, the bard of string and song who went by the stage name Final Fantasy, lives by no such code. Yes, the Japanese RPG nerds he brought with him to the dance are going to be left standing at the punchbowl, bitter tears spilling down their cheeks and onto their Dragon Quest t-shirts. Final Fantasy is Final Fantasy no more; he has gone back to name his mother gave him, Owen Pallett.... read more
Win the ultra-rare The Beatles: Rock Band Xbox 360 console and help Doctors Without Borders
[Updated 25 Dec 2009] *: This fundraiser and game ended December 23. We raised $2,486.80 in one week for Doctors Without Borders. Thanks to everyone who donated! The grand prize winner was Davrosdiablo. The winners of point cards were: RDVG, jtcooperga, mikeschnitz, eastladebra, and gjhoney11. The winners of the Gold membership cards were: tedZilla99, MissSandeno, shardrix, natureguided, and matt_thebert. The winners of the videogame were: pabii2000, brycehays, vrandle, segoodenow, and ElSchticmo242. The top five point leaders were: vrandle, RDVG, segoodenow, JGNOLA, and mikeschnitz. Paste has partnered with Microsoft and MTV Games to raise money for the international emergency medical humanitarian... read more
Turns Out, Michael Jackson Composed Music for Sonic 3
At least, that's what "le magazine official de Michael Jackson" says... read more
Win an Xbox 360 Elite Bundle in the Paste Scavenger Hunt
Update (12/15/2009): Play the latest scavenger hunt and help Doctors Without Borders here (game ends December 23, 2009). The winners for the hunt below: The grand prize Xbox 360 Elite Holiday Bundle was won by an anonymous player from Anchorage, Alaska. The 2nd place winner was junebugge from Woodland Park, New Jersey. And the two third place winners were anonymous (all we have are emails). Get to know the new PasteMagazine.com and you could win an Xbox 360 Elite Holiday Bundle. Simply play the newest Paste Scavenger Hunt, finding the answers to questions on the appropriate Paste webpages. Each... read more
Who Frontman Roger Daltrey Hints at Upcoming Rock Band Game
"Music is our last true great freedom," Daltrey says. "They can burn our books, they can burn our paintings, but they can't stop us singing and making music." read more
Big Boi, Jermaine Dupri and DJ Drama Talk DJ Hero
Atlanta hip hop's finest talk to Paste about Activision's next big video-game release... read more
Daniel Johnston's Art Comes To Life On the iPhone
"Hi, How Are You." This is the simple catchphrase minted in singer-songwriter and artist Daniel Johnston's mural, which you may have seen while rounding the corner of 21st Street and Guadalupe in Austin, Texas. The words are painted in bold caps over a poppy-eyed cartoon frog named Jeremiah the Innocent, the new protagonist in an iPhone game based on Johnston's zany yet poignant drawings. ... read more
Iggy Pop, Bon Jovi, Vampire Weekend, More On Board for LEGO Rock Band
Call him the Godfather of Punk or modern-day rock's weird uncle. Either way, Stooges frontman Iggy Pop is set to hit the stage for yet another generation, this time in Lego form.... read more
Dystopian Epic Mickey Video Game in the Works
[Above: concept art for Epic Mickey via Gary Glover]Last year, the gaming website Gamasutra teased at a possible "steampunk" video game-treatment of classic Disney characters, codenamed Epic Mickey (think Kingdom Hearts, but with mechanized-scorpion Country Bears.) Although the game has yet to be officially announced, it's all but confirmed that production is underway.... read more
ReSTART Internet Addiction Center Opens in Seattle
ReSTART, the world's first internet-addiction residential treatment program, opened recently in Redmond, Wash. (ironically enough, the neighborhood where Microsoft was founded). The center offers a 45-day, $14,000 rehabilitation course that promises to help addicts ease dependencies on social networking, online video games, texting and a host of other technological time-wasters.... read more
Ryan Adams: Video Game Blogger
Keeping up with Ryan Adams has always been a bit of an adventure. Be it following his rumor-mill dating life and eventual marriage to former pop-queen Mandy Moore , his on and off-stage dramatics and, of course, his desire to consistently release music, the ride of being a die-hard Ryan Adams fan is more of a wooden rollercoaster than a carousel. Recently, Adams threw a new and arguably exciting turn in his career trajectory: video game blogger. Sort of. ... read more
Rock Band Network Provides Platform for Lesser-Known Musicians
If there is anyone left in the gaming community who doesn't agree that Rock Band at least looks like an outlet of face-melting fun, the next addition to the game should might help convince them.... read more
28 Weeks Later Director in Talks for Bioshock Film
Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, the director of the well-liked sequel 28 Weeks Later, is in talks to replace Gore Verbinski as the director of the video-game adaptation Bioshock.... read more
Elliott Smith, TV On The Radio, Band of Horses Added to Guitar Hero 5
In May, we told you of the extensive and eclectic Guitar Hero 5 tracklist, which was to feature 83 bands from The White Stripes and Vampire Weekend to Bob Dylan and The Rolling Stones. Now that the list of artists has been confirmed, it's gotten even weirder: GH5 boasts Elliott Smith's "LA," TV On the Radio's "Wolf Like Me," My Morning Jacket's "One Big Holiday," and Band of Horses' "Cigarettes, Wedding Bands," among other alternately rocking and puzzling jewels. ... read more
Dethklok to Appear in Metalocalypse Video Game, Release Dethalbum II
Just because their mostly-fictional television home is on hold until the fall doesn't mean that Dethklok is taking a break. With an upcoming new album and a soon-to-be-announced video game, the bone-crushing cartoon metal band seem to be moving on from simple world domination to total universe tyranny.... read more
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